This book covers GNU packages made with autoconf, automake, libtool,and pkg-config. It will take you from source code to installable package. If you've wanted to put your package on the web with aconfigure script like all the other packages you've downloaded,this book will tell you how to do that. The answer is to useautoconf, automake, and libtool, and perhaps pkg-config. This givesyou a GNU-style package. Once you have your GNU-style package it's fairly easy togenerate both a source code and binary RPM package--this bookwill show you that as well. Included are some basic scriptsto help make the generation of the %files (explained inside)section of the spec file easier. This book will also show how to make a Solaris (System V) package. The book has over 100 tables, over 40 figures, and over 90 examples.